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No, they haven't jumped the shark. Happy Days started to suck long before Fonzie jumped the shark tank. That episode was just the final straw. TechCrunch isn't
by nhebb 16y ago
No, they haven't jumped the shark. Happy Days started to suck long before Fonzie jumped the shark tank. That episode was just the final straw. TechCrunch isn't that bad - as long as you pick and choose which articles to read. If you're wasting time reading every TechCrunch article linked to by HN, then you have bigger concerns than whether the articles are consistently high quality.
Maybe HN article submitters could do us a favor and bracket the author's name in the title for those of us that have biases for or against certain writers at TC, NYT, etc.
- petercooper 16y agoAgreed. If you stick to Arrington, Rao, Butcher, and a couple of others, you get some good content. There are just a few 'bad apples' there who drag it down.
- schammy 16y agoHalf of Rao's stories are about Salesforce. I can only assume she either gets paid directly by SF to write about them, or she has some kind of personal connection with one of the founders there, so she writes about them every chance she gets. She's not a bad writer, I just smell something fishy going on behind the scenes. The only articles I like for the most part are by Arrington and Jason Kincaid. Arrington goes off on rants sometimes or writes ridiculous flamebait, but when he puts his mind to it he writes the best articles on the site by far. These gems just don't show up often enough to make the site good though.